MUTUAL DESIGN OF OVERHEAD TRANSMISSION LINES AND RAILROAD COMMUNICATIONS AND SIGNAL SYSTEMS

From February 1981 to June 1983, the Electric Power Research Institute funded IIT Research Institute to examine the problem of interference to railroad communications and signal systems from high-voltage, overhead, alternating current (ac) power lines. A key goal of this project was to develop means to accurately forecast whether or not a planned power line to be located near a railroad will cause interference problems. A second important goal was to develop means to perform accurate cost-versus-benefit trade-off studies for mitigation if interference is expected to be a problem. In this paper the approaches used by IIT Research Institute in attaining these goals are discussed, and the project accomplishments, principal findings, and principal remaining problems are summarized.

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• Authors:
  • Taflove, Allen
• Conference:
  • 63rd Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board
  • Location: Washington District of Columbia, United States
  • Date: 1984-1-16 to 1984-1-20
• Publication Date: 1984

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 42-47
• Monograph Title: Rail papers - 1984
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 953
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alternating current; Communications; Computer programs; Electromagnetic interference; Safety; Signaling; Transmission lines
• Subject Areas: Design; Economics; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Safety and Human Factors; Society; Vehicles and Equipment; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00391337
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309036739
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Mar 29 1985 12:00AM